Associations to the word «Retraction»
Noun
- Lobe
- Blog
- Notice
- Tissue
- Tip
- Denial
- Fraud
- Beth
- Damage
- Signaling
- Receptor
- Sign
- Article
- Symptom
- Substrate
- Journal
- Paper
- Newspaper
- Cylinder
- Projection
- Stress
- Breast
- Demand
- Dialect
- Bleeding
- Editor
- Scar
- Concession
- Mar
- Intake
- Migration
- Nerve
- Claim
- Powers
- Limb
- Array
- Fiber
- Alteration
- Cell
- Accused
- Wheel
- Injection
- Practitioner
- Phase
- Airplane
- Rib
- Publication
- Neuron
- Pitch
- Defect
- Investigation
- Disorder
- Watch
- Reduction
- Expansion
- Upper
- Firing
- Issue
- Prairie
- Pathway
- Boom
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
RETRACTION, noun. An act or instance of retracting.
RETRACTION, noun. A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion, and which concedes that the earlier assertion was in error.
RETRACTION, noun. (mathematics) A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.
Dictionary definition
RETRACTION, noun. A disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion.
RETRACTION, noun. The act of pulling or holding or drawing a part back; "the retraction of the landing gear"; "retraction of the foreskin".
Wise words
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